OVER 75 weddings were postponed in a day in Kota Rural district after police reached out to families as part of a campaign to comply with the lockdown which has been enforced in the State to contain rising COVID cases. During a field visit of DIG Ravidutt Gaur, two beat constables of Kota Rural Police, Asharam of Digod police station and Navneet of Kaithun police station, informed him that they had persuaded three families to call off weddings scheduled for this month, DSP and CO (Itawa) Vijayshankar Sharma told PTI.

 

The beat constables were given a reward of Rs 1,100 each, he said. The DIG then directed officials to conduct meetings at gram panchyat level in presence of influential locals and public representatives to persuade families to cancel upcoming weddings, Sharma said.